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YES!! Often I come up with wonderful ideas for stories, and I'll write a couple of scenes, do character sketches, and get everything ready- history and what not- and then not know how to start the story off. It's happened several times.

Also, I'll write something and think it's cool when I'm writing it, then come back a couple of weeks later and read it again, then it's crap, but then I'll read it again a couple of weeks later and it's good again. It's weird- and frustrating.

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don't worry too much. I once heard really good advice about writing. (this is if you have a lot of time) Write something, and put it away for six months. Then look at it again and see what you think of it now. Then make some changes if you need to, and put it away for another six months and check it again. Of course, six months is really stretching it, so I would make it more like a week. You can always change it back. As for the planning thing, here it is: I don't plan. I may do some research, but if you plan every detail, when characters take a life of their own, it no longer seems natural. I try to leave the inbetween kind of blank although I do pick an ending(sort of). Other writers it works for to plan it all out. Try a couple different ways and see what works out best for you. biggrin heart

I have a bad habit with starting one story, then starting on a whole new one. It's like a gift and a curse at the same time; A gift because anything that interest me I HAVE to write about it or something relating to it and a curse because I see another thing that interest me and I have to write that, but I'm not done with the one I started. Now I have 22 story ideas that haven't been started on yet or have yet to be finished. crying

hint: get a journal or a notebook and write down the details of your story idea. Then force yourself to finish the first one before you start on another one. biggrin heart good luck!

Oh, okay! Thanks lots and lots for the advice! biggrin

Endings can be a bit of a problem for me. I'll think 'em out, and they'll be so perfect. Then I put 'em on paper, and it just lacks the drama and the feeling.

That's really my only problem (Thank God) I mean I always have ideas, lol, and I have a knack for good beginnings. With endings, well, let's just say I just feel when it's time to end. I'm one of those people who never plans a book. I just start and fit it all in, and it all works out well.

Ignore the work I put in the writing room, it's pretty misleading *laughs* the book I'm working on now is much better. Maybe I'll put it up later, but it has really long chapters.

I can understand where a lot of people have problems, though, like with doing it all in between, so maybe I can offer some advice to help you all out. If you ever find yourself stuck, try to play it out in your head, like a movie. Just lay back and daydream, lol. Sometimes it can jog your mind and help you to think something up. Another thing you can do is think back to some of your experiences. Sometimes you can think of something that fits in.

I hope that helped smile

The one-word answer is "yes". I sometimes keep notebooks or papers for recording ideas, and occasionally I even go so far as to write scenes on the pages. But, I have no idea why, everything I write on paper seems to be dreadful. I am incapable of writing well with anything other than a computer. sweatdrop I've tried to reverse this trend by doing primary writings on the computer, then doing a revised version with a pen and paper, but inevitably the plain-paper writing turns out to be deplorably bad. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I can type much faster than I can write, I don't know.